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What it is: The village of Llanddewi Brefi — grid reference SN662553 — may have been founded in the sixth century, but it had to wait until 2003 until it found fame as the fictional home of Daffyd Thomas, a character in the BBC television comedy Little Britain, which picked up gongs from the Royal Television Society. In the programme, Daffyd, played by Matt Lucas in tight-fitting leather shorts, is “the only gay in the village”, who never notices the gay nights at the pub and lesbian pottery lessons on offer, and strops off to wallow in his minority status.

Gwyngoed, which means “white trees”, is owned by a local farmer who is now selling it off as it is no longer used for its original agricultural purpose.

But it is not the only restoration project in the village, six miles from Lampeter and 20 from